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Lexicographical Neighbors of

a la minute
a la mode
a la mode(p)
a leopard cannot change its spots
a lie has no legs
a life of its own
a little
a little bird told me
a little bit of bread and no cheese
a little from column A, a little from column B
a little from column A and a little from column B
a lot
a man's home is his castle
a man is known by the company he keeps
a mensa et thoro
a million (current term)
a million times
a miss is as good as a mile
a new broom sweeps clean
a nod is as good as a wink
a non domino
a notch above
a number of
a penny saved is a penny earned
a penny saved is a penny gained
a people
a piacere
a picture is worth a thousand words
a picture paints a thousand words
a posteriori

Literary usage of

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Roughing It by Mark Twain (2001)
""It's a blind lead, for a million!—hanging wall—foot wall —clay ... For I was worth a million dollars, and did not care "whether school kept or not! ..."

2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1918)
"O. A TALE OF SPEED The Biography of a Million Dollars. ... D Litt., B. $i.so WHAT does it matter if you gain a million dollars and lose your digestion? ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... whereas in 1907 it had received nearly a million and a Quarter, in 1908 and 1909 the figures amounted to only three quarters of a million. ..."

4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"TRAVELLING WITH HALF A MILLION. I. IN the vaults of the Rothschild banking-house at Frankfort-on-the-Main there sat a young man about thirty years of age, ..."

5. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam ( Smith, Joseph Shield Nicholson (1895)
"... eight hundred thousand pounds in gold and silver, and a million of bank notei, or eighteen hundred thousand pounds of paper and money together. ..."

6. The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and (1919)
"When we should have a million men actually fighting in France—and we were to have them toward the end of this year's campaign—the German, if he had not won ..."

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